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If not antieipated, it is my intention at Some future oppor+ tunity to detail more at length the reasons which impel me to believe,' that the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, are calculated to preserve the race of Merino Sheep, not only in the existing degree of Spanish purity, bat 80, as to be more than rival to Spain.)

Lesteyrie appears to have had much experience in Spain, in the north of Europe, and various other countries on the continent as to the Merino Sheep, particularly as to the Rambouilliet, or national flock in France, adverted to by Your correspondent, No. 61, page 97, and[ imagine his observations would be interesting to many of your readers. Had time allowed the opportunity, 1 meant to have requested your permission for inserting a few translated extracts from that indefatigable and judicious author, by which[ presumes it may be fairly deducible, that in Spain, as well as in other countries, the race of Merino Sheep, with the requisite atten- tion, would be Suscepüble of attaining to a mgeh higher State of perfection. But as I apprehend the book bath not yet been turned into Englisn, I beg leave to Submit to your Consideration, how far an evtire translation, ocCCasSIonally to form part of your useful Publication, migat consist with primary arrangements.

In the course of our correspondence I have stated it to have been my opinion, that Merino Sheep produce more and better mutton, and more and„beiter wool, than our native Sheep. I still continue to be of the game opinion. The certainty of the-two latter points bave been abundanty demonstrated. As to quantity of mutton pasture, 1 could wish it were precisely ascertained by comparative experi- ment; with Jarger Sheep, 1 mean; Smaller, the Welch mountaineers, lor jnstance, I incline to think, would pro- duce still more mutton per acre; the only objection I know to them, is the difficulty of confining them to inclosures. Merino Sheep, on 1he contrary, are remarkablyv docile and temperate, alike indifferent to our mountains or plains. But in reSpect'to 3 Superior degree of quality and Bayvour, 1 appeal witb confidence to the unbiassed testimony of many Competent Judges, members of the Bath Agricultural Society; älso to Mr. Brooke, a butcher in Bath, of first-rate emi nence.

In another part of our correspondence, I mentioned that I was about to make trial of ibe cross with Welch.ewesz and have now to state, that a Shearling ewe of the first C708S, got by one ot Lord Somerville's rams, produced. a. Deece weighing upwards of 6 1b. unwashed, which sgoured, would be full 3 Ib, worth, perhaps, 63. per Ib. ox 188. much